⁷ I was forty years old when ^(A)Moses the servant of Yahweh sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought word back to him as it was in my heart. ⁸ Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people ^[a]melt with fear; but ^(B)I followed Yahweh my God fully. ⁹ So Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely ^(C)the land on which your foot has trodden will be an inheritance to you and to your children forever because you have followed Yahweh my God fully.’ ¹⁰ So now behold, Yahweh has let me live, just as He spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, when Israel walked in the wilderness; so now behold, I am eighty-five years old today. ^11 (D)I am still as strong today as I was in the day Moses sent me; as my strength was then, so my strength is now, for war and for ^(E)going out and coming in. ¹² So now, give me this hill country about which Yahweh spoke on that day, for you heard on that day that ^(F)Anakim were there, with great fortified cities; perhaps Yahweh will be with me, and I will dispossess them as Yahweh has spoken.”